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Elections Supervisor Predicts Historic Turnout

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We're just days away from election day and close to one-third of the state's registered voters have already cast their ballots-with vote by mail or early voting.

That's four million ballots, already in. Pasco Elections Supervisor Brian Corley says many states don't have early voting and require an affidavit to get an absentee ballot, so they the only option is voting in person on election day."Florida being the largest battleground state and now the third in population, early voting in the statute itself says 'as a convenience to the voter,' and we're seeing more and more voters utilize both early voting and vote by mail for knocking it out, so I like spreading it out between the three, to be honest with you", said Corley.

Corley says we could see an historic turnout, based on what he's seen - a full 10 percent of those casting ballots on the first day of early voting in his county were "first-time voters." And as for Corley himself, he's already voted by mail.